13 July 2005 11:15

"First, I use the manual ping page, then about an hour later I use the manual ping page again. Then I use a quick bash script I wrote to call the XML-RPC ping interface. Then I wait another 24 hours. Then I jump into IRC and harass Kevin Marks personally until my site gets indexed."

09 June 2005 18:15

The script parses any web page you're looking at for likely 'Proper Noun Phrases' - these are then passed to a PHP script that returns those matches that actually exist as titles in the English Wikipedia, so that they can be turned into hyperlinks.

11 May 2005 14:45

"backstage.bbc.co.uk is the BBC's new developer network, providing content feeds for anyone to build with. Alternatively, share your ideas on new ways to use BBC content. This is your BBC. We want to help you play." Waow, this rocks !

21 March 2005 18:15

"We're proud to announce the first release of our API. It's an implementation of the Atom API so i'ts pure HTTP + XML. In fact, Building an Atom enabled linkblog service was the first motivation in the blogmarks.net project."

16 March 2005 16:45

To the Web community I want to say: Microsoft has now been challenged. They will respond, if enough people remind them of the challenge. Please remind them. And, when IE 7 is released, make sure this is the first thing you type into it:

16 March 2005 08:15

14 March 2005 16:45

Furthermore, suppose the tool were well commented, and structured in such a way that people who have even the most tenuous grasp on the concepts of HTML could reasonably modify it to remove the links and content that they don’t want, and add or reorder the links that they do want?